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Sunshine (2006) Fifty years from now our sun is dying — which is much much sooner than anyone had anticipated — and a group of eight astronauts and scientists are sent aboard a spaceship to drop a huge bomb into the heart of the sun to “kick start” it again. Ominously their spaceship is called the “Icarus II” — didn’t anyone at NASA know their Greek mythology? Or maybe they just weren’t superstitious when it comes to tempting the fates, who really knows? Even more ominously the “Icarus I” simply disappeared without trace, which makes their naming nomenclature even more inexplicable. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.
Make no mistake though: purely as a space
adventure action/thriller Sunshine
works reasonably well even though it treads
familiar ground. The special effects and set designs are extremely
well done, and to truly appreciate them one should watch this film
on the big screen. Hard sci-fi fans will also be thrilled by the
film’s central conceit even though most of the science is bogus.
Acting is competent and despite a slow start the film nicely picks
up the pace to make for an exciting mid-section. The film is however
often flawed by an over-reliance on techno babble that will be off-putting
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Alien vs Predator 2 (2007)
A cast of unknowns, a brother directors team (the Brothers Krause) whose previous work consists of music videos and special effects work for X3 and a Canadian shooting location. |
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28 Weeks
Later (2007)
Lead
by director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 28
Weeks Later picks up six months after
the Rage virus has decimated the city of London. The US Army has
restored order and is repopulating the quarantined city, when a
carrier of the Rage virus enters London and unknowingly re-ignites
the spread of the deadly infection, wreaking havoc on the entire
population. That original director Danny Boyle didn't bother with directing this sequel (instead he did Sunshine).
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Southland Tales (2007)
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I Am legend (2007) Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable... and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City... and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by "the Infected" - victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days scavenging for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the Infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville's every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But his blood is also what The Infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time. Actually I Am Legend has been in development heck for about a decade or so by now. At one stage it was to be a Ridley Scott movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now Will Smith and Francis Lawrence, director of Constantine have started filming on the flick. Considering how good sci-fi has been for Smith (Men in Black) and how good a certain other African-American vampire-slayer has been doing at the box office one supposes it was perhaps only inevitable that the project would be fast-tracked like this all of a sudden as star vehicle for Smith.
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Resident Evil 3:
Extinction (2007)
Anyway, the previously titled Resident Evil: Afterlife is now called Resident Evil: Extinction instead. The script is by Paul W.S. Anderson who directed the first Resident Evil movie and wrote its sequel, Resident Evil : Apocalypse. The Alien vs. Predator director is busy remaking Death Race 2000 at the moment. This latest installment in the movie based on the computer game will be directed by Russell Mulcahy who is known for Highlander II - The Quickening. Alice fights the Umbrella Corporation and their plan to replace humankind with a race of undead clones.
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Logan's Run (2007)
It is of course a remake of a pre-1970s movie of the same name that, although fondly remembered, wasn't really all that good. The Plot involves a future society in which people go for "renewal" (state-assisted suicide) at the age of 30, and just to show how accelerated our youth culture is, the age in the remake is apparently now 21. It was
rumored that Leonardo diCaprio was to be Logan at a previous stage
of the film's development, but is obviously too old for it now. A young man at odds with his society's mandatory death sentence for all those turning 21 plots a daring escape on the eve of his fateful birthday.
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Deathrace 3000 (2007)
Paul W.S. Anderson known for (Alien vs Predator) will write and direct. At one point Tom Cruise was set to star, but now he simply seems to be co-producing the movie. "The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant. A no-holds-barred, ultraviolent car race, set in 2020.
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Terminator 4 (2008)
They're in discussions with Schwarzenegger for him to appear in a small role in the upcoming movie. Can anyone else be the Terminator? Who knows? Apparently the already finished script by John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris (who both did Terminator 3) skips ahead several years into the future from the ending of Terminator 3 and features a much older John Connor leading the rebellion of humans against the machines.
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